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    <title>topic Re: The Golden Telephone in Community Spirit</title>
    <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/The-Golden-Telephone/m-p/989297#M274690</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Oldie but a goodie&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>newstart2380</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2014-01-29T02:37:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Golden Telephone</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/The-Golden-Telephone/m-p/988857#M274568</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;An&amp;nbsp; American decided to write a book about&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;famous churches around the world.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;EM&gt;So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Orlando, thinking that he would start by working&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;his way across the USA from South to North.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;On&amp;nbsp; his first day he was inside a church taking&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;photographs, when he noticed a golden telephone&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;mounted on the wall with a sign that read &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;'$10,000 per call'.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; American, being intrigued, asked a priest&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;who was strolling by, what the telephone was&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;used&amp;nbsp; for.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; priest replied that it was a direct line to&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;heaven and that for $10,000 you could talk to&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;God.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; American thanked the priest and went along&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;his&amp;nbsp; way.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Next stop was in Atlanta . There, at a very large&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;cathedral, he saw the same looking golden&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;telephone with the same sign under&amp;nbsp; it.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;He wondered if this was the same kind of&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;telephone he saw in Orlando and he asked a&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;nearby nun what&amp;nbsp; its purpose was.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;She told him that it was a direct line to heaven&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;and that for $10,000 he could talk to God.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;'O.K.,&amp;nbsp; thank you,' said the American.&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;He&amp;nbsp; then travelled all across America , Europe, &lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;England, Japan , New Zealand . In&amp;nbsp; every church he&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;saw the same looking golden telephone, with the&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;same '$US10,000 per call'&amp;nbsp; sign under it.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; American decided to travel to Australia to see&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;if Australians had the same&amp;nbsp; phone.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;He&amp;nbsp; arrived at Newcastle in Australia and&amp;nbsp; again,&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;in the first church he entered, there was&amp;nbsp; the same&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;looking golden telephone, but this time&amp;nbsp; the sign&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;under it read, '40 cents per&amp;nbsp; call.'&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; American was surprised, so he asked the&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;priest&amp;nbsp; about the sign. 'Father, I've travelled all&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;over&amp;nbsp; the world and I've seen this same golden&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;telephone in many churches. I'm told that it is a&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;direct line to Heaven, but in all of them, the price was&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;$10,000 per call.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;Why&amp;nbsp; is it so cheap here?'&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;EM&gt;The&amp;nbsp; priest smiled and answered, 'You're in&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;Australia&amp;nbsp; now, son - "This is Heaven," so it's a&lt;/EM&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;EM&gt;local call'.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;/EM&gt;Probbly not for much longer lol&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2014 23:03:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/The-Golden-Telephone/m-p/988857#M274568</guid>
      <dc:creator>icyfroth</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-01-28T23:03:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: The Golden Telephone</title>
      <link>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/The-Golden-Telephone/m-p/989297#M274690</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Oldie but a goodie&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Community-Spirit/The-Golden-Telephone/m-p/989297#M274690</guid>
      <dc:creator>newstart2380</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-01-29T02:37:18Z</dc:date>
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